NATALIE WARDLE

Eyes on/Terrain of the Body Review for Wonderland Magazine by me https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2017/02/07/eyes-terrains-body/#3

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Throbbing Gristle’s COUM Transmissions Retrospective written by me @ChrisAndCosey @coseyfannitutti https://theplayground.co.uk/news-throbbing-gristles-genesis-p-orridge-cosey-fanni-tutti-headline-coum-transmissions-retrospective/

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"A scornful snapshot from an artist uncompromising and not afraid to unveil the truth."EP review: @NatalieMWardle's 'Corrupted Geisha' - out now via @CruelNatureFor the first time, watch the video for 'What's Your Worth Vampire' made by Kex Hindmarsh https://sun-13.com/2022/03/18/vhs%c2%a5death-corrupted-geisha-ep/

"It's pure coincidence, but Londoner Natalie Wardle has created the right music for these turbulent times. Because as VHS¥DEATH, she has also come up with something very confusing - and that is absolutely positive. Basically, it brings back a style that has led a rather shadowy existence in recent years: sampling. The five songs on her current EP "Corrupted Geisha" consist mainly of naked rhythm frameworks, around which she sets set pieces of different sounds and conversations. The collage style of their clay art structures, which refuse all common song schemes, sometimes make them surreal and disturbing. When, as in "Snakes In The Grass", menacing Hammond organ whistles and monotonously scraping guitars begin, the scenery even tilts into the nightmarish and becomes almost as horrible as an executed exorcism due to the pitched voices. VHS Death experiments with electronics and incorporates occult ideas. In the end, there is a rather short musical pleasure (after a quarter of an hour the whole haunting is already over), but it should hardly have been longer, because Natalie demands you unduly and her demanding Nachtmahr compositions tug at the nerves and make you uncomfortable. But doesn't music have to hurt sometimes? After all, VHS¥DEATH manages to stay in the memory with her EP "Corrupted Geisha", precisely because she is so different, so uncomfortable and so radical in her sound aesthetics. A strong number." http://www.unter-ton.de/4-22--vhs-death,-acht-eimer-huehnerherzen,-rome-is-not-a-town,-mfmb,-stella-diana---die-musik-spielt-weiter.html

'VHS¥DEATH is the genre fluid, dark and gothic tinged borderless experimental project of Natalie Wardle (She/They). We checked in with the restlessly inventive UK based creator about the new Corrupted Geisha EP, one of my favorite things so far this year. I know as a writer it is my purported purpose to tell you WHY I like it, but music is also experiental. For myself, I feel that there is a very wide open palette in play here and it is exciting to not know where a release is going to bring you track to track but being thrilled to trust the artist in the twists and turns/mind warp. There is also a sort of dancing around the edges of limitations, like journaling a transmogrification of pain as messenger to shackle shedding revelatory process via samples, sound collage and just bad ass music that makes you want to get down, freak out and dare to feel things…even if that feeling is vertigo, a chill up your spine, certain doom or the contradictions of human conditions.' Metal Riot thanks buddy xo metalriot.com/news/interview-vhs%c2%a5death-natalie-wardle-talks-disposition-of-shapeshifting-new-ep/

💔 Written by Natalie-Maria Wardle